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Change the Placeholder text in SharePoint Search Box

Summary

This sample script shows how to change the placeholder text in SharePoint online search box for a given (sub) site and/or for all the sites in a site collection.

Scenario inspired from this blog post: SharePoint Online: How to change the placeholder text in the search box

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  • PnP PowerShell

# SharePoint site collection url
$siteUrl = "https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/contoso"

# Connect to SharePoint Online site  
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $siteUrl -Interactive

# Change the search box placeholder text for a given (sub) site
Set-PnPSearchSettings -Scope Web -SearchBoxPlaceholderText "Search Contoso Site"

# Change the search box placeholder text for all the sites in a site collection
Set-PnPSearchSettings -Scope Site -SearchBoxPlaceholderText "Search Contoso Site"

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Contributors

Author(s)
Ganesh Sanap

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